This Needs To Be Spoken Of More 😭 Like Seriously

This needs to be spoken of more 😭 Like seriously

This is totally unrelated to a lot of what I post about on here so feel free to ignore this. But I don’t think we talk enough about how abusers have caught onto the fact they can manipulate minors mental health issues to their benefit. I’m seeing so many children being affected, and literally being the definition of groomed because their abuser who they see as a friend is holding suicide over their head. We need to teach kids that, yes suicide awareness is important. Depression and topics of mental health is important. But there ARE people out there that will use your compassion and kindness to abuse you. They’ll dangle their life and mental health over you in order to control you. What’s worse is a lot of children nowadays are dealing with severe mental health problems, abusers have caught onto this “I’ll be there to help you no matter what damage you may cause me.” attitude. They’re preying on the fact these kids genuinely want to help someone who might be feeling as awful and hopeless as they are.

Adults shouldn’t be venting to you about hugely adult and personal life issues, they shouldn’t be using you like a therapist. If you ever feel like you’re scared to leave them alone for long periods, they get aggravated or massively moody if you don’t reply immediately, if they start treating you like just another adult in their life, or if they keep you up all night on their social media’s to talk and it’s becoming an every-night thing. Run. You’re being taken advantage of. It feels like you’re helping a friend in the moment, but if they were really your friend they would get help and not put so much pressure onto you. This is what’s so infuriating about those “internet safety” articles aimed at parents. None of them mention things like this.